STUDIO: PRACTICE AND THEORY E

VPA3TME

2014

Credit points: 30

Subject outline

In this subject students will engage in research into ideas and concepts that form the basis of their focus in art practice. The conclusions drawn will provide the impetus to create a contemporary body of artwork utilizing the various modalities in technologies that are available within the studios and supported by an established critical relationship with context arts practice.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points: 30

Subject Co-ordinator: Stephen Turpie

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: VPA2TMD

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource Type	Title	Resource Requirement	Author and Year	Publisher
Readings	Camera Lucida: reflections on photography	Preliminary	Barthes R 1993	VINTAGE, LONDON
Readings	Illuminations	Preliminary	Walter B 1999	PIMLICO, LONDON
Readings	Inside the white cube: the ideology of the Gallery Space	Preliminary	O'Doherty B 1999	BERKERLEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Readings	Little Glass House of Horrors: High Art Lite, the Culture Industry and Damien Hirst	Preliminary	Ray G 2004	THIRD TEXT
Readings	Making do	Preliminary	Eichler D 2007	FRIEZE
Readings	Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World	Preliminary	Bourriaud N 2002	LUKAS & STERNBERG
Readings	Protest and Survive	Preliminary	Metzger G & Godfrey M 2007	FRIEZE
Readings	SIMULATIONS	Preliminary	Baudrillard, J. 1983	SEMIOTEXT, NY
Readings	Sticky sublime	Preliminary	Beckley B 2001	NEW YORK: ALLWORTH PRESS
Readings	The Three Ecologies	Preliminary	Guatarri F 2000	ATHLONE PRESS, NJ
Readings	The artificial infinite: on special effects and the sublime. Visual Display: Culture beyond appearance	Preliminary	Bukatman S 1995	SEATTLE: BAY PRESS
Readings	The beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age: 17th biennale of sydney	Preliminary	David Elliot 2010	N/A
Readings	Ways of Seeing	Preliminary	Berger J 1972	THE VIKING PRESS, NY
Readings	conceptual Art: a Critical anthropology	Preliminary	Alberro & Stimson 1999	MASS MIT PRES

Bendigo, 2014, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: 45

Enrolment information: OH&S risk management of max. number in studios groups where specific equipment is in use Through selection by folio interview process

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Stephen Turpie

Class requirements

WorkShopWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours workshop other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

TutorialWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours lecture other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%
Contemporary art essay (1600 word equivalent)		20
Group discussions, present through digital images (800 word equivalent)		10
Practical studio component (1600 word equivalent)		20
Presentation of a coherent folio of artwork in your discipline (1600 word equivalent)		20
Presentation of a developmental artworks (400 word equivalent)		5
Presentation of artworks in a specific visual arts discipline (800 word equivalent)		10
Seminar presentation and participation (800 word equivalent)		10
Studio research journal (400 word equivalent)		5

Mildura, 2014, Semester 1, Day